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As a counterpoint, Turbolinks has been an unmitigated success for a huge app that I work on. 80% of the performance and responsiveness of an SPA with about 5% o
by toasterlovin 9y ago
As a counterpoint, Turbolinks has been an unmitigated success for a huge app that I work on. 80% of the performance and responsiveness of an SPA with about 5% of the work. Granted, the app is very vanilla-Rails. I can see Turbolinks getting in the way if you have a bunch of other "complicated" Javascript, but if your app is mostly standard Rails views plus some jQuery, Turbolinks is an amazing hack.
- cocktailpeanuts 9y agoYes, but my point was that if I want my app to be "vanilla rails with jQuery" (which actually is all you need for most web apps), I actually WANT it to behave like a "website", meaning I DON'T want it to behave like a single page app because it's confusing both for users and the developer (myself), which is where turbolinks comes in.
- toasterlovin 9y agoIMO, it doesn't behave like a single page app. It just performs like one (aka, it's fast as heck).